Michael McCann on the growing nexus of sports and the law

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Episode 532 of the Sports Media Podcast features Michael McCann, a legal analyst and senior sports legal reporter for Sportico and the Director of the Sports and Entertainment Law Institute and Associate Dean for Intellectual Life at the University of New Hampshire. In this podcast, McCann discusses how to write about sports legal issues for a layperson audience; why the next five years will be a test of who's a great university president because of paying college athletes, fewer students enrolling (especially foreign students) and birthrates down; the NCAA scoring a win in court as a federal judge dismisses Terrelle Pryor's lawsuit over lost NIL opportunities; the most pressing things that exists right now in the nexus of law and sports; Donald Trump's executive power abilities for college athletics; a judge's ruling that Nevada wide receiver Cortez Braham Jr. can play what will be his seventh college football season; the NFLPA's issues; what he expect to happen with sports gambling scandals; whether a college athlete sign a contract with a sports network, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	XG. Park the bus. Put it on a plate. Put it in the mixer.
0:07.0	How's your touch?
0:09.0	Wond of a left for.
0:11.0	On the beach. Fergi time.
0:14.0	Top bins. Lins.
0:17.0	Hanging in the Louvre. It's not for everyone.
0:22.6	It's for the fans.
0:24.6	Skybet.
0:26.6	18 plus gambleware.org Welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:44.7	I'm your host Richard Dij.
0:45.5	My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:47.3	Our guest is Michael McCann, a legal analyst and senior sports legal reporter for Sportico.
0:56.5	Also, and as important, the director of the sports and entertainment law institute an associate dean for intellectual life at the
1:02.4	university of new hampshire michael and i worked together for a number of years at sports
1:07.9	illustrated really one of my favorite colleagues and And as I've said many times,
1:12.4	both when I worked with him and today, I think he's the far and away, the best person working
1:18.5	today who combines legal analysis through the nexus of sports and is able to write about that in a way that lay people can
1:30.1	understand. And with that, I bring in Michael McCann. Welcome.
1:33.6	Hey, Richard. Great to see you. And thanks for that nice intro, too.
1:36.6	You got it. So let's just start, actually, before we even get into any topics, I want to start
1:42.3	with this. How do you find the things you write about
1:45.2	or how do you determine what you end up writing about in a given week for Sportica?
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